The Search for Lessons in Trump’s Return on Martin Luther King Day – NYT

“‘We want a colorblind society,’ Mr. Reagan said in a radio address, ‘a society, that in the words of Dr. King, judges people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.’ That appropriation and the sanding down of Dr. King’s more jagged edges bothered Martin Luther King III, son of the slain civil rights icon, who attributed his father’s assassination to his embrace of ‘a radical redistribution of wealth,’ not ‘riding in the front of a bus.'”

MLK’s battle for racial equality got him beatings and jail. Fighting for all poor people, a bullet.

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